Fetal heart monitors, found more than one heartbeat…?
August 30th, 2010
So last night, as I was laying down to go to bed, I decided to see if I could find the baby’s heartbeat, which I do from time to time. Well, last night, I swear I found 2. One was at 135 bpm and the other was at 154 bpm and they sounded different. As we are all aware, a full grown persons heart beat is only around 80-100 bpm, so both of the above numbers are too high to be mine. How likely at 18 weeks 1 day is it to just now be aware of the possibility of twins? Is it common to have a real early ultrasound (7w2d) and not see another child? Also, how far apart would the babies be if there were two in utero? The slower heart beat was loud as usual, and the other faster heartbeat was quieter. The reason I question my own thoughts is the heart beats were about 3 inches apart from one another. Has anyone had any experiences like this and found out it was or was not twins? I have a good Doppler, and have been able to find the babys heartbeat each time. Any thoughts? Ideas? I go in Wednesday of this week to find out what the gender is! I can’t wait! Twins are prevalent in my family and last year in my family we had spontaneous triplets, so multiples are very possible.
Mrslane, I believe you could be correct, but a resting heartbeat for anyone pregnant or not shouldn’t be over 100bpm. That would start getting up into high blood pressure range I believe. Which each time I go to the doctor, that has been at around 80bpm for me.
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A lot of times twins are missed in early pregnancy but the doctor should have picked up on the second heartbeat by now I would think. But anyway that sounds really exciting! If you are having twins i’m gonna guess one boy one girl. It does sound like you could be carrying twins though, good luck!
well a pregnant woman’s heart rate increases during pregnancy sue to increased blood supply so it wouldn’t be abnormal to have heard your own going a bit faster. if your indeed carrying twins they wouldn’t be far apart at all, but this early there is lots of room so it varies. also a babies heartbeat increases with movement so if one baby is moving at all their heart rate will automatically increase. and it is possible to miss a 2nd baby at a 7 week scan, the other baby could have been behind the first. or the technician may have just not seen it or mistaken it for something else.
Ask your doctor about it, because one of those heartbeats might be your own ..